Pelzer v. City of Binghamton

SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of December 16, 1898, of the circuit court for the Northern district of New York, denying a motion for an injunction pendente lite against the city of Binghamton’s unlicensed use of reissued letters patent No. 11,478, to Luther Stieringer, as assignor to George Maitland, for improvements in electrical fixtures. The original patent was dated June 6, 1882. The validity of claim 1 of the reissue was sustained by this court in Maitland v. Manufacturing Co., 29 C. C. A. 607, 86 Fed. 124, and that question did not arise upon this appeal. In…